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6:40 PM ET, August 19, 2008

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RIAA Says Muxtape Hosting “Illegal Content”  —  Sam Gustin has learned that Muxtape, the music sharing site that went down yesterday citing “a problem” with the RIAA, has received numerous requests to take down content the industry group deems “illegal.”  —  Those requests apparently went unheeded — until yesterday.
Discussion: VoIP & Gadgets Blog and Valleywag
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
RIAA speaks on Muxtape: Illegal content
Discussion: SearchViews
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface  —  We've long known that Nike+ has been in development for the iPhone.  Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface.  From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone …
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple willing to replace any smoking first-gen iPod Nanos  —  If you're still hanging on to your first-generation iPod Nano, and you've noticed it has a tendency to smoke too much, Apple is willing to replace the unit.  —  The company issued a statement Tuesday after reports out of Japan …
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Elizabeth Montalbano / Macworld:
Apple blames scorching iPods on battery problem  —  Apple is blaming a problem with overheating iPods in Japan on faulty batteries, the company said in a statement Tuesday.  —  In response to reports that Japan is investigating incidents of iPod nanos getting hot enough to scorch paper placed nearby …
PC World:
Watching the Olympics on Your Mac  —  Christopher Breen, Macworld.com  —  As you may have heard, there's a smallish sporting event going on in China.  Despite its humbleness, people seem to be interested in the thing.  Some of them use Macs.  And some of those Mac users are more that a little peeved …
Discussion: Technically Incorrect
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:   2500 Windows 7 employees broken up into 25 feature teams
Pew Research Center:
Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources  —  Audience Segments in a Changing News Environment  —  For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Verizon's FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake?  —  Four years ago, Verizon Communications embarked on an ambitious and expensive plan to run fiber optic cables, which can deliver ultra-fast Internet service and dozens of high-definition video channels along with old-fashioned telephone service …
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Arden Pennell / Palo Alto Online:
Facebook to move to Stanford Research Park  —  Some employees may remain in downtown Palo Alto — neighborhood part of firm's ‘DNA’  —  The Internet firm Facebook, headquartered in downtown Palo Alto with more than 600 employees at five offices, will move all or a substantial portion …
Discussion: VentureBeat and WebProNews
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Mapping Facebook's Growth Over Time  —  Using Google's new Insights for Search tool, Inside Facebook has mapped Facebook's US and international search growth over time from its launch in February 2004 to the present.  Note that while these are not visits, searches and visits do generally correlate.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges  —  My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+.  That was 1982.  I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel chips a couple of years ago.
InfoWorld:
Judge dissolves gag order against MIT students  —  A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday dissolved a gag order against a trio of MIT students who said they found flaws in the Massachusetts transit authority's ticketing system.  —  Zack Anderson, Russell “RJ” Ryan, and Alessandro Chiesa …
Discussion: CNET News.com and eWeek
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Federal Judge Throws Out Gag Order Against Boston Students in Subway Case
Discussion: ZDNet Government
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Google Will Offer Services for Bloggers at the Conventions  —  WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Launches Enhanced 404 Widget  —  Google has launched a new tool within Google Webmaster Tools that allows Webmasters to create custom 404 pages.  —  To access the tool, go to Google Webmaster Tools, then click on tools on the left and then click on “Enhance 404 pages.”
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
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Sahala Swenson / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Make your 404 pages more useful
Matt Peckham / Game On:
Emily is Not Real: The End of “Real” Actors?  —  I have seen the future of computer-generated video game animation, her name is Emily, and Emily is not real — or is she?  See for yourself in the following clip just released from 3D facial animation company Image Metrics, and which I read about in The Times Online this morning.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.5.5 build 9F17 now in developers' hands  —  Alongside the public release of iPhone Software v2.0.2 on Monday, Apple also provided its Mac OS X developers with a new private build of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update, AppleInsider has been told.
Discussion: Infinite Loop
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year  —  Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we've pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208.
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP  —  Vista's death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP.  —  In a survey of more than 3,000 computers …
Don Reisinger / Mashable!:
Lotame Grabs $13 Million in Funding for New Advertising Idea  —  Online advertising is the key to the future for companies that want to be successful, but a small firm called Lotame has just raised $13 million in Series B funding to take aim at advertisers and provide a unique way of getting in front of the target audience.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
IE 8 to get ‘porn mode’?  —  The countdown to Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 is on.  Microsoft said the consumer-focused IE 8 test release would be available in August.  There are just 11 days left....  No doubt, Microsoft has been holding back some features that will be added to the new test build.
Discussion: istartedsomething
 
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
News Corp. Proxy: Murdoch Gets Bonus Bump In '08; Moves To Eliminate Staggered Board
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu Beating CNN, Turner, Still A Fraction Of YouTube
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
“Functionally voluntary” music may lead to blanket licenses
Discussion: Portfolio.com
Associated Press:
WSJ launches free news application for BlackBerry
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
What Will Happen When the Presses Go Silent?
Google:
Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses
Discussion: Electronista and Gearlog
Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear:
Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source
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New SSL policy in Firefox hurting tens of thousands of sites
 

 
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